Reference: Leasing
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O sons of men, how long will my honor become a reproach? How long will you love what is worthless and aim at deception? Selah.
You destroy those who speak falsehood; The LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.
Easton
(Ps 4:2; 5:6) an Old English word meaning lies, or lying, as the Hebrew word kazabh is generally rendered.
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O sons of men, how long will my honor become a reproach? How long will you love what is worthless and aim at deception? Selah.
You destroy those who speak falsehood; The LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.
Fausets
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O sons of men, how long will my honor become a reproach? How long will you love what is worthless and aim at deception? Selah.
You destroy those who speak falsehood; The LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.
Hastings
A 'leasing' is a lie. Wyclif uses the word often. Thus Joh 8:44 'Whanne he spekith a lesinge, he spekitb of his owne thingis; for he is a lyiere, and fadir of it.' The word occurs in AV in Ps 4:2; 5:6,2Es 14:18.
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O sons of men, how long will my honor become a reproach? How long will you love what is worthless and aim at deception? Selah.
You destroy those who speak falsehood; The LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.
"You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Morish
The Hebrew word is commonly translated 'lies.' Ps 4:2; 5:6. The word 'leasing' is from the Anglo-Saxon leas, 'false.' Wiclif, in Joh 8:44, translated "Whanne he spekith lesynge."
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O sons of men, how long will my honor become a reproach? How long will you love what is worthless and aim at deception? Selah.
You destroy those who speak falsehood; The LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.
"You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Smith
(falsehood). This word is retained in the Authorized Version of
from the older English versions; but the Hebrew word of which it is the rendering is elsewhere almost uniformly translated "lies."
etc.
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How blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust, And has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.
The wicked are estranged from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from birth.